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Critical directory traversal vulnerability found in Rocky Linux 10 pam

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Calendar Grey January 14, 2026
Scroller Rockylinux
Rocky Linux pam update addresses important directory traversal flaw impacting authentication mechanisms. Learn more.
Important: pam security update

Summary

An update is available for pam. This update affects Rocky Linux 10. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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Topics Covered

security advisory directory traversal important authentication Linux PAM rocky linux

RPMs

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.src.rpm

pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm

pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm

pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm

pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm

pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm

pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

References

No references

CVES

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6020

Severity
important
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Critical

Name: RLSA-2025:20181
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 10

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372512


Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory directory traversal important authentication Linux PAM rocky linux

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